Press author Arnie Bernstein talks to The Christian Science Monitor about America’s first and largest school mass murder
In a Christian Science Monitor article, CSM contributor Randy Dotinga notes, "Sometimes it feels like the mass violence of our modern age is something devastatingly new in America. History shows that's not the case." He then explains that eighty-five years ago thirty-eight children and six adults were killed when a man set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school in Bath, Michigan--the first and largest school mass murder in American history.
Arnie Bernstein, author of Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing, spoke to the CSM about how the reaction to the shocking 1927 event was different from the current situation in Aurora, Colorado; described what can be learned from the Bath tragedy; and discussed how, in the wake of the horrific event, "out of this came good and decency--people caring for strangers and looking out for one another."
You can read the full interview on the Christian Science Monitor's website.
